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How would you like it if Google discontinued Gmail ? Because that's what Reader is like it to me and many others. Just because you don't use it doesn't mean others don't.

And I fail to see what is "interesting" about Keep/Drive. Both are poor copies of products that have been around for years.

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You and many other still isn't enough to justify the continuation of a free product. THATS the point. Gmail has something like 150 million active users so it wont close. If it's user base ever dropped to 10s of thousands then I would expect Google to close it. I wouldn't mind because I could get my data - and would already be in the other 149+ million USING SOMETHING ELSE.

If gmail died I would use hotmail.

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